SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON,

President Royal Geographical Society, F.R.S., V.P.G.S.,

Corr. Inst. of France, and Member of the Academies of St. Petersburg,

Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels, Etc.,


This Work

is affectionately offered as a Token of Gratitude for the kind interest
he has always taken in the Author's pursuits and welfare; and to express
admiration of his eminent scientific attainments, nowhere more strongly
evidenced than by the striking hypothesis respecting the physical
conformation of the African continent, promulgated in his Presidential
Address to the Royal Geographic Society in 1852, and verified three
years afterward by the Author of these Travels.

DAVID LIVINGSTONE. London, Oct., 1857.





Preface.

When honored with a special meeting of welcome by the Royal Geographical
Society a few days after my arrival in London in December last, Sir